FULLL TECH AHEAD!
One reader wonders about the following quote found in "STIMULATING THE RIGHT WAY" (on http://patriceayme.wordpress.com): “That is precisely why high technology green jobs have to be promoted.”
"This is paradoxical — industrialism has created widespread environmental devastation, and so we expect to work our way out of this with more “high technology” (i.e., industrialism)?"
“Paradox” means against common opinion. In the USA, opinion is running strongly against intellectualism, science and high technology, which are all tightly related. But it seems not to be the case in France, Britain, Germany, or some non negligible countries such as Brazil, India and China.
The main problem nowadays is that high technology and its attending industrialization keeps alive nearly seven billion people. It is indeed unlikely that much more than 50 million people could be kept alive with primitive technology.
Our civilization is in the situation of a jet barreling down the runway, well past the point of no return: either we take off, or we crash in flames and explode.
More advanced technology will not have to have a worse impact on the environment. A gory example is that when thermonuclear power reactors get on line, one could probably burn in them unusable radioactive waste (such as produced in medicine). A sunny example is that solar power will work, and give us all we need (the most recent studies show it would even provide with enough power on Mars to make fuel there).
The American anti-technology, anti-intellectualism bias is strongly related to the American reign of plutocracy (See Patriceayme.wordpress.com, Nov 16, 2008).
PA.
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